I Suppose I Shouldn't Go Around Admitting

I Don't Think I've Ever Stolen Anything.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work, We Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste. But There Is This Gap. For The First Couple Years You Make Stuff, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.

I Don't Like That Whole "art Should Challenge You" Thing. Because I Don't Feel Like Art Actually Does Challenge You. I Was A Semiotics Major At Brown, And There's This Idea That Stories Are Better, Books Are Better, And Movies Are Better If They Cocked You Off Your Axis And You Were Completely Disoriented And You'd Really Have To Rethink Everything.

One Reason I Do The Live Shows - And The Monthly Speeches At Public Radio Stations - Is To Remind Myself That People Hear The Show, That It Has An Audience, That It Exists In The World. It's So Easy To Forget That.

It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.